hello there guys Kirk and Jason here with Kirk Giordano plastering, today what we're gonna show
you is a fix this is actually Jay's job and we're in San Francisco, he's coming here to do some
work, and I was coming here to do something extra. so I just met him here. What Jason showed me last
the night he was at the house that needs to say dad take a look at a job I'm gonna do tomorrow and
he showed me it on his phone. he said it about a bucket of mud and I thought that looks like about
a bucket of mud to me, but I'm no spring chicken so I couldn't see it. well I said do you know
how to send this to the computer, so he sent it to the computer and last night, I said Jay, you
better come take a look at the computer.
And let me show you something on here. And on the computer, we could see clearly that this is he's using J-trim on this particular job. Now J-trim is, it's
a good product, it's this stuff right here they call it corner aid or corner bead in a lot of
other states, Canada stuff we call it J-trim here in California, anyhow, there's J-trim here and then
there's, what we thought was J-trim here and I thought well gee, according to the computer you
Could see it this is way off.
if this is off, this is off corners off and I'll show you what i'm referring to since you're on that side of that corner here is supposed to line up with this corner, so we
got a huge gap here i'm sticking my finger through this gap. So that's all got to be true and plumb.
So what we come up with is the reason that top piece is so far off is, i looked at it and i said
man this is a drip screen for a product called Dry-Vit and you put insulation board and this
is usually about an inch and a half.
Jay says, how do you know that? and i said well i used to use it all the time, and besides i can look at the screed he used, and that's a Dry-Vit drip screed. He just
turned it upside down and put it right there. So anyhow the fella here did a pretty nice job
he watched our videos, he did the mesh using a rib lath which you can use a rib lath, let's see he
used a rib lath and yeah there are different ways to put this on. The is the right way is this way so here it lasted he did a scratch coat in the brown coat he did the best he could and on a scale of one to
ten, I think it's pretty good the corner here is of course, off to this is way off. Now I am prepared Jason and I are pretty good at screening work we could put a screed here and make a new corner or
I can just take a hammer which I am gonna do and just pop this right off, I'm getting rid of this
because it's not right. Anyway, before I get rid of it I'm gonna put my glasses on and a mask and just
take that whole thing off. I'm just gonna install a new corner it's a lot faster for me, but anyhow
as far as using a rod works we're no stranger to it. We used to use these when I was working Union. We
come to houses, we would spray when I was working with Danny Smith plastering and my buddy Fred Smith,
he was one of the best plasters I ever met, when it would come to a corner we're missing, say eight
feet or 10 feet up corner aid, Fred would say hey Kirk, go grab, the rod off the truck, we call
them rods here in California they're called T bars in Australia, you put a rod up two guys hold it one
at each angle say one at the top of the scalpel one at the bottom and you just build a corner
leave it alone go around and finish the building. Then come back, and that'll be set, and that's
what we call rod in a corner you'll see it how we do that but we're going to go ahead and get
started here, Jay's gonna mix up and between the two of us we're gonna re-set it then we're
going to give it the proper finish. This is what we call it heavy load finish, so that's where we're at
and one last thing too because, because this screed here doesn't align with this.
I'm gonna fill this up tighter, and prior to filling that tighter we want to fill this hole right here before I put
cement on it little things like that or make a huge difference, a little bit of caulk in there
and then we go ahead and fill that guy right there and yeah we're gonna get prepared and bust this
corner out when you see us again we're gonna be spreading this out Oh guys I have decided it's a
way faster for me to put new corners on then to try to build this out as you look underneath it
was so bubbled up so it took me like five minutes to pop that out, now what I'm doing is I'm putting
these corners on here ,and what I want to do is see this one way over here I want to line that
one to this one right here and we're going to make a brand new corner and when I mug this thank you
Tim when I mud this it'll be a lot easier what I'll do is I'll put accelerators and say half
a bucket of mud I put the accelerators and a half a bucket of mud and I just one coat this. Then I
skim coat everything and my corners now are going to be true and plumb way easier to do it this way
give you an example that guy right there you can see how it's off here and there yeah it's off and
this corner here should line up with my corner you see I can almost stick my hand. hello folks
see there, that's how bad at all it is anyway we're getting there, simple, kind of fun I love
doing stuff like this so when we get to do the actual plaster we'll show you that. All right guys. Although we got a brown coat here with no scratch marks like say here, it will still adhere but I'm just I like to be on the safe side on everything we do so we're putting a little
bit of bonding agent it would have adhered any way through suction and now what I'm doing is we got
some real hot mud here look how hot this is just mixed less a hot I mean that's got accelerators in
it and now that our corner is right where I want it what I'll generally do is I'll take it here
once I get this horizontal corner then then I can do my vertical but got to do the horizontal
before you do the vertical and again in five minutes this is going to be hard as a rock.
because I've got luminite in this stuff. One more Tim, please, then after I get the last of
this here I'm gonna go underneath because this will be a set solid and underneath I put a lot
of Weld-crete to get that, so it won't separate so there we go beautiful, and one last
one Tim please, I'll take yours and give it to me. Okay we're right here and the true fun
is feathering when I come to feather this in it's really wiggly we're just gonna use regular
mud no hot mud. Okay guys we're gonna show you how we do our corners now make-believe corner
first I'm gonna put a little bit of mud right here a little bit here, and then Jay's gonna
hold that rod we call it a rod feather edge, t-bar, whatever you want to call it and we get
this right where we want it and this got to be wet so now I'm gonna shove a whole bunch
of mud under there get in there. Okay shoving a whole bunch in there well watch your fingers
blam. Okay, coming in fill it up full and what Jay gonna do it in a second yes hold on wait a
minute wait a minute is he's gonna pull that up and away from me that way it adheres but before
that I'm gonna go ahead and fill this up because I got a rod this still one more one more trial
four and then he can pull up and I can rod this also okay here we go now this is the final coat
oh man we got some rock get rid of them rocks rock rock okay we're gonna try again there we go
pull this here now, pull it up and away, and that should stay beautiful. That's guys' accelerators in
it in ten minutes that's going to make us a corner if you want to hand me that rod right behind you
two, and the last thing is the rod there is I can use the rod or this I prefer using a Darby now I'm
gonna take this Darby and come up or here take it this way and come up take it this way and come on
chewing plum guys chew and plum that way and this fella comes home you'll say whoa and by
the way we've had neighbors over here they said man everything that guy does turns to gold, he is
just great we haven't seen him do anything ever wrong and I said actually this wasn't
wrong it's just a little bit off and it turns out he was watching some of our videos, to get
to this stage which is pretty damn good guys. that's a pretty good stage to be at to do all
of this, it's if you got ceilings to deal with and corners pretty hard so I give the guy a big
8 if he was a professional I'd give him a 3 but being a new guy first time he gets the big 8 ok
folks, we are about to take a lunch because this got a set for about 15 minutes we didn't bother
putting any retardants in this but it will dry by suction you know what the weld Creed
on here there it is still will still absorb so we're out of stage now where we've made all new
corners we've got time to do its thing and in set we messed with it too much it'll just fall
down but if we give it time like say 15 minutes 20 have some something to eat or relax it go do
something else then we just floated all right guys last thing we're doing is floating everything it's
all true and plum and much better than it was now what we're doing here is this is wet stucco
still the Weld-crete killed all the suction so we took a lunch and it's still soft but that's
Okay now, what we're doing is we're bringing out the aggregate. Giving it a float finish and we
clean the metal we bit better than the last guy he made a mess everywhere, boy you can do that if
it's your own house lastly I just take the float go this way and go this way to get a sharper edge
now everything's trim plumb we're all set anyhow my name's Kirk. Jason as usual on the Camera and helped
me spread most of this as usual guys thank you for watching and we'll see you guys on the next one.